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Our Take

The clip from memetowntees is a quick gut-punch, but it lands on something real: Flock Safety's own legal team has argued that letting the public see what data these cameras collect amounts to a privacy violation. Sit with that for a second. The company that built its business on scanning your plate, your location, and your movement patterns — often without you ever opting in — is now citing "privacy" to keep that same information shielded from public scrutiny. That's not protecting you. That's protecting the business model.

This is the core contradiction we keep running into with ALPR networks. They're marketed as neutral infrastructure, just cameras doing traffic math, but the second someone tries to audit how that infrastructure is actually used — who's querying it, how often, for what — the industry suddenly discovers a deep concern for individual privacy. Funny how that concern never extends to the thousands of drivers getting logged every day in towns that never held a public vote on it.

If a meme account can spot the irony in fifteen seconds, it shouldn't take months of FOIA fights for the rest of us to get the same clarity. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your commute, and if you want to push back locally, our take-action guide has the steps.